Cool beans. I used the latest stable DD-WRT firmware, v24-sp2 dated 10/22/08, is what I'm using on the secondary. I don't think the primary has to change any settings to get the secondary to go from client bridge to repeater bridge, but I think it might just have to give up the connection for a while (I power cycled my primary right away and got it on). So you might try repeater bridge before you power cycle, if you have some time to hang around. I don't know if it is an issue of the DHCP lease expiring from the primary (which is my only dhcp server on this lan, and which extends to the bridged network). Make sure you're not just running out of leases (you might have connectivity but not get allocated a dhcp lease).
Best of luck, Ben PS - futzing again here, noticed that a strainer behind my primary's antenna gained me a few points of signal quality, and my SNR is hovering around 15-17, which should at least get me to the megabit level. The noise is low but the signal is also low (that is noise is -94, good, while signal is -78, not so good). I might just switch both away from channel 11: various sites around me *all* use channel 11 :) IF I can bear to power cycle them both again, laughs. On Sat, Feb 14, 2009 at 2:02 PM, dooger watts <[email protected]> wrote: > > > Ben Barrett wrote: > >> >> Oh, one thing I did in setting up the bridge, that I think I read >> afterward was a good idea, was to get the client bridge setup & tested >> first, and then just switch it to repeater bridge. I had to power cycle the >> device (and my primary) after that last switch, but haven't had to reset >> either so far.... >> > Yeah client bridge is the mode it's functioning in now and I did try that > before attempting to switch to repeater bridge. The primary router is one > part of this system I've never futzed with as it's about 100 yards away > under my neighbor's desk and my/his feeling is if it ain't broke don't fix > it. (Works fine for all the boxes in his network so I'm reticent to pull > some trick that will make it work better on my end at the expense of messing > up something on his). > >> >> Oh, and fwiw, I never heard of doing the 30-30-30 when it comes to >> lockups, without trying a power cycle first. Power cycling is SO universal, >> most of us have a handful of dsl modems we'd rather not remember... Just >> unplug the cable for 10 seconds or more, depending on your aura, then plug >> it back in. Much much easier than the 30-30-30, which was the worst tech >> yoga I've had to perform in years X^/ >> > Well the signal drop comes every 24 hours so it won't be long before I can > try your power cycle advice > And it ain't that I'm scared (much) of trying to upgrade my dd-wrt firmware > to something fresher than V24--it's just that there are scores of them and > they seem to change hourly. > > Thanx Ben, > > m > > _______________________________________________ > EUGLUG mailing list > [email protected] > http://www.euglug.org/mailman/listinfo/euglug >
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